Okay, here's part four. I'm going to do most of this ep. in this chapter as I only want this to be five or maybe six parts. Anyway, here's chapter 33 New Earth part four.
Rose was still lying on the floor, Chip was hovering over her as she woke "Mistress."
"Moisturise me." she said, it was a posher voice than normal. Rose had been taken over by Cassandra. "How bizarre. Arms. Fingers! Hair! Let me see, let me see!" she ran over to a mirror "Oh, my God. I'm a chav
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The Doctor was worried now, there was still no sign of Rose, he'd been to check for himself and had gotten some water for himself and also Hame. He handed her the water "That's very kind." she said "There's no need."
"You're the one working."
"There's not much to do." she said "Just maintain his smoke. And I suppose I'm company. I can hear him singing sometimes, in my mind. Such ancient songs."
"Am I the only visitor?"
"The rest of Boekind became extinct long ago." she answered "He's the only one left. Legend says that the Face of Boe has watched the universe grow old." the Doctor smiled "There's all sorts of superstitions around him. One story says that just before his death, the Face of Boe will impart his great secret. That he will speak those words only to one like himself."
"What does that mean?"
"It's just a story."
"Tell me the rest."
"It's said he'll talk to a wanderer. To the man without a home. The lonley god."
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"Look at me." said Cassandra, from Rose's body "From class to brass. Although." she unzipped Rose's hoodie "Ooh. Curves. Oh, baby. It's like living inside a bouncy castle."
"Mistress is beautiful." saiid Chip
"Absolument" she said "Oh, but look."
"Aw, the brain meat expired." he said "My old mistress is gone."
"But safe and sound in here."
"But what of the Rose child's mind?"
"Tucked away, I can just about access the surface memory." she said "She's....God, she's with the Doctor. That man, he's the Doctor. The same Doctor with a new face. That hypocrite. I must get the name of his surgeon. I could do with a little work. Although...Nice rear bumper." Rose's phone began to ring. "Oh, it seems to be ringing, is it meant to ring?" She pulled out Rose's phone.
"A primitive communications device."
She answered the phone "Rose, where are you?"
"How does she speak?"
"Old Earth, Cockney."
"Um..." she said "Wotcha."
"Where have you been? How long does it take to get to ward 26.?"
"I'm on my way, guv'nor." she answered "I shall proceed up the apples and pears."
"You'll never guess! I'm with the Face of Boe. Remember him?"
"Of course I do." she said "That big old...boat race."
"I'd better go, see you in a minute."
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The Doctor walked over to the Duke of Manhattan "It's that man again." said the Duke "He's my good luck charm. Come in, don't be shy."
"Any friendship expressed by the Duke of Manhattan does not constitute a form of legal contract."
"Winch me up." she did as he asked "Up! Look at me! No sign od infection."
"Champange, sir?"
"No, thanks." said the Doctor "You had petrifold regression."
"'Had' being the operative word. Past tense. Completely cured."
"But that's impossible." said the Doctor
"Primitive species would accuse us of magic but it's merely the tender application of science."
"How on earth did you cure him?"
"How on New Earth, you might say."
"What's in that solution?"
"A simple remedy."
"Then tell me what it is."
"I'm sorry." she said "Patient confidentiality. I don't believe we've met. My name is Matron Casp."
"I'm the Doctor."
"I think you'll find that we are the doctors here."
"Matron Casp, you're needed in intensive care."
"If you would excuse me."
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"This Doctor-man is dangerous." said Chip
"Dangerous and clever." she said "I might need a mind like his. The Sisterhood is up to something. Remember that Old Earth saying. 'Never trust a nun...never trust a nurse and never trust a cat.' Perfume?"
She left her lair in Rose's body
Rose entered the ward and the Doctor spotted her "There you are." he said "Come and look at this patient. Marconi's disease. Should take years to recover. Two days, I've never seen anything like it. They've invented a cell-washing cascade. It's amazing. Their medical science is way advanced. And this one." he turned around "Pallidome pancrosis, kills you in ten minutes, and he's fine. I need to find a terminal. I've got to see how they do this. 'Cause if they've got the best medicine in the world, then why is it such a secret?"
"I can't Adam and Eve it."
"What...what's with the voice?"
"I don't know, just larking about." she said "New Earth. New me."
"Well, I can talk." he said "New new Doctor."
"Mmm, aren't you just." She kissed him, the Doctor didn't respond as he now knew that this wasn't Rose and he was (for the very first time ever) relieved when she pulled back.
"T-t-terminal's this way." she said, walking off.
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The two of them were looking at a teminal. "No, nothing odd." said the Doctor "Surgery. Post-op. Nanodentistry. No sign of a shop, they should have a shop."
"No, it's missing something else. When I was downstairs, those nurse-cat-nuns were talking about intensive care, but where is it?"
"You're right." the Doctor told her "Well done."
"But why would they hide a whole deptartment?" she asked "It's got to be there somewhere. Search the subframe"
"What if the subframe's locked?" he asked, trying to find out what was wrong with his wife.
"Try the installation protocol."
"Yeah." he said "Course. Sorry." The wall began to lower itself, leaving a passageway open that had not beent there before. They walked through it. "Intensive care. Certainly looks intensive."
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They were deep inside intensive care. The Doctor used the sonic screwdriver to open one of the doors in the wall. He opened the door and looked in
"That's disgusting." said the not-Rose "What's wrong with him?"
"I'm sorry." said the Doctor "I'm so sorry." He closed the door. He then unlocked the next one and opened it too.
"What disease is that?"
"All of them." answered the Doctor "Every single disease in the galaxy, they've been infected with everything."
"What about us?" she asked "Are we safe?"
"The air's sterile." he answered "Just don't touch them." He closed the door and walked away. They stood at the railing looking out
"How many patients are there?" she asked
"They're not patients." the Doctor answered
"But they're sick."
"They were born sick. They're meant to be sick." the Doctor said "They exist to be sick. Lab rats. No wonder the Sister's have got a cure for everything. They've built the ultimate research laboratory. A human farm!"
"Why don't they just die?"
"Plague carriers." he answered "The last to go."
"It's for the greater cause."
"Novice Hame." said the Doctor "When you took your vows, did you agree to this?"
"The Sisterhood has sworn to help."
"What by killing?" asked the Doctor
"But they're not real people." hame answered "They're specially grown. They have no proper existence."
"What's the turnover?" the Doctor asked "A thousand a day? Thousand the next? Thousand the next? How many thousands? For how many years? How many?"
"Mankind needed us." Hame answered "They came to this planet with so many illnesses, we couldn't cope. We did try. We tried everything. We tried using clone meat, and bio-cattle, but the results were too slow. So the Sisterhood grew it's own flesh. That's all they are. Flesh."
"These people are alive." said the Doctor
"But think of those humans out there, healthy and happy because of us."
"If they live because of this" the Doctor said "then life is worthless."
"But who are you to decide that?"
"I'm the Doctor." he said walking towards her "If you don't like that, if you want to take it to a higher authority, there isn't one. It stops with me."
"Just to confirm...none of the humans in the city actually know about this?"
"We thought it best not...."
"Hold on." said the Doctor "I can understand the bodies, I can understand your vows, but one thing I can't understand. What have you done to Rose?"
"I don't know what you mean."
"And I'm being very, very calm." he said "You want to be aware of that. Very, very calm. And the only reason I'm being so very, very calm is that the brain is a delicate thing. Whatever you've done to Rose's head, I want it reversed"
"We haven't done anything."
"I'm prefectly fine."
"These people are dying and Rose would care."
"All right, clever-clogs. Smarty-pants. Ladykiller."
"What's happened to you?"
"I knew something was going on in this hospital but I needed this bodt and your mind to find it out."
"Who are you?"
"The last human." she whispered in his ear.
"Cassandra?"
"Wake up and smell the perfume." she said. She sprayed the Doctor with the perfume that Chip had given her and knocked him out.
Alright, that's this chapter complete, I'll get the next one up ASAP. I love the next bit, "Oh, baby, I'm beating out a samba!" Need I say anymore? Possessed Doctor?
TTFN
Julie.